Make it a Double Mower Review By Vladimir Bloom mowermusic.com suburbannoizerecords.com/mower.php Upon first listen, Mower, a San Diego based semi-gansta/punk heavy metal band, hearken back to a time in music when bands like the Kottonmouth Kings, Suicidal Tendencies or Biohazard ruled the video-airwaves and movie soundtrack world. Almost every song has some brand of cheap pop culture reference that reminds […]
MOWER!
The Hagerstown Debacle
The Nazi-like hatred of the right wing against Healthcare For All gains the momentum of a Brownshirt movement “people rallied outside before the meeting” [I saw the video of this meeting on C-SPAN last night, on Tuesday, 8-11, which said the meeting took place on Monday. The religious fervor of the anti-healthcare-for-all protesters remarkable. It was alike a religious thing, […]
YouTube Leads To Teen Set Aflame
[News We Can Use] Mom wants YouTube to tighten its user guidelines from wesh.com/cnn-news/20366679/detail.html DELTONA, Fla. — A Deltona teenager was hospitalized on Wednesday after suffering multiple burns while imitating a video posted on YouTube. Russell Gortzig, 13, said his friend siphoned gasoline from a riding lawnmower and poured it on Gortzig. The teen said he held the lighter away […]
It’s not all the evil bankers’ fault
Are We Having Fun Yet?* by Kent Manthie *with apologies to Bill “Zippy the Pinhead” Griffith Remember back last fall? September, October and the first couple days of November? There was so much excitement in the air. Despite the disastrous turmoil from which our our economy was in the midst of suffering – Hank Paulsen and co. strong-arming Congress to […]
Right-wing Mobs and Health Care
[Email] This month, we’re either going to win or lose the fight for real health care reform. from Moveon.org Do you want to look back and wish you’d done more? I sure don’t. That’s why we’re planning to double our efforts on health care this month. Over the weekend, we blew through our initial fundraising goal. If we can raise […]
re-packaged, re-marketed punkrock!
SUBHUMANS reissue Southern Records recently re-packaged (Some) and re-issued the Subhumans catalog on CD that were originally released back between 1981 and 1986 on Blurrg Records. Here are reviews of those new CDs and thoughts on why their popularity is timeless, as looking at your average teenage “misfit” punk-rocker with a Subhumans or Exploited t-shirt. To wit: Southern Records southern.net […]
100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny
The 100 Year-Old Penny “Confederate soldiers were upset at the prospect of carrying the image of Lincoln in their pockets. “ Story from time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1913870_1913868,00.html?cnn=yes Photo by Reviewer Rob Aug. 2, 2009, marks the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln penny, the longest-running U.S. coin still in circulation. The U.S. Mint had been producing one-cent coins since its founding in 1792, but […]
2001 abbreviated
2001 Seconds Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey gets edited down on vimeo.com, with a new soundtrack, for the short-attention-span Twitter Generation Credited to Mike Daw. See it in full-screen HERE. “2001: A Space Odyssey is a great film ‘n all, but man it’s boring. Don’t worry though, this here is a version of the film edited down to a […]